Job 20:5
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
In Context
4Know you not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
Cross References
Judges 16:21But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
2 Samuel 18:15And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and stroke Absalom, and slew him.
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Job 8:12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.
Job 15:29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
Job 21:28For all of you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Matthew Henry on Job 20:2-10
Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. 3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. 4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto… Read the whole commentary →